Quotes from Charles Bukowski

Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn't like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybody else wanted.

Because you're not accepted doesn't necessarily mean you're a genius. Maybe you just write badly.

They needed me to make themselves feel better. Just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

I look into myself and find perfect emptiness

When I die they can take my work and wipe a cat's ass with it. It will be of no earthly use to me.

People don't need love. What they need is success in form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

You realize how many people there are on this earth without a chance? Because of where and how they were born? Because they had no education? Because they never had anything and never have and nobody gives a fuck . -South of No North

lei ti sorride. un sorriso che dice: so che sei pazzo ma per me va bene lo stesso.

She's always high in heels spirit pills booze

almost anything upsets or insults a movie audience, while people who read novels and short stories love to be upset and insulted.

as I continue to consume - while the madhouses, skidrows and graveyards are filled with the likes of me

A los hombres siempre les persigue algo que nunca pueden evitar. Sin descanso, siempre.

YOUR ASSHOLE, MY ASSHOLE, THE WORLD IS FULL OF BILLIONS OF ASSHOLES. THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE CARWASH BOY HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE JUDGE AND THE MURDERER HAVE ASSHOLES

Possibile che fossi davvero idiota, dopotutto? Ero io che andavo a cercarmele, le rogne? Possibile. Era possibile che fossi davvero subnormale, che per me fosse già una fortuna riuscire a sopravvivere.

Some women are delicate things, some women are delicious and wondrous. If you want to piss on the sun, go ahead but please leave them alone.

There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

it's a war not easily won

hay un viejo dicho: cuando los dioses quieren destruir a alguien, primero lo ponen furioso.

I said goodbye again sucking up all that was left of her into the little that was left of me. I said, don't look for me again. fuck it. we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye. — Charles Bukowski, from "Rimbaud be damned," The People Look Like Flowers at Last . (Ecco; First Edition edition March 27, 2007)

Find something you love - and let it kill you

Here in America a man ain't a man unless he's got three or four whores and a late model car. All right, I'm a little drunk. Maybe that's why I mock myself. But put a new car and 3 women on my back and I'm fucked. I don't have a t.v. I don't even have a radio. A big Brazilian cunt who wants to put that thing on me, calls me the last of the monsters.

The doorbell rang like a rape, or the tearing of ripe flesh.

A imortalidade é uma estúpida invenção dos vivos.